Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-23
SOME STATISTICS.
Scholastic Population IN Southern States
Foreign Institutions end Custom5.

Scholastic Population IN Southern states
Foreign Institutions end Customg,
From Ia report Of the Commissioner
oil Eauesi0n for loS4-5: New Hampshire,
IN 1886, mad but +24 men teaching in her
pn9lic schools, to 30G2 women. The
average monthly psy of the men was
SG9 2Ii VI the women, $50 20; youth OF
school ege (5-l5) in 1850, 90, 500. Whole
expenditure for public schools in 1885,
6Gl3, 1893.
Vermont, in l8S4-5, had $50 men and
1896 women teaching in the public
schools. Average monthly pay of male
teachers, S5l 5G women, 2l.2s; youth
OF school az g 2o), 90, 1862 Expeudi-
ture for public schools, SGl1 sos
Ia Connecticut, men teaching winter
schools, 54t; women teaching Wiuier
schools, PAP Aan teaching in sumner,
SO; women teaching in summer, 2G25.
Average pay Of male tescLe-s, St9.IG;
average pay IF female teachers, S37 ca
Cnl-dren Of school age, I5IOG9 Ex-
peGdltore5 for public scA0cis, 81, 852. 22I ;
cost OF suleTintendents If same, SZg or.
Louisiana has 266,O4g children e
sclCO' sge-6-I8. White youths in p15.
lie schools, 80 ,032; colorod you. q,
10000 White men teaching, SIS: White
women, 9ls; col0red men teach
Jag, 4l9; colored women, 2Os; ave 20
age pay Of while men, So 81;
white women, 93I,75. Monthly paw O.!
coloEed men teaching, $50 90: averaa q
pay OF colored women, S27 500 Ex-
penditures for public schools, S450.O8o-
S2O,2S1 less the previous year.
Ia Mississippi, 1854, white youths o.
school age Cpd, I85G2G; colcrgd
youths OF school age, 30 los. White
! enro led II pubic sc-OCl5, I2g,Cl7: col.
ored enrolled, 1898 Average div II.
tendgnceI white, So, 2g4; colorcd, ggIz7.
Number Of men teaching, 39I7: women.
2oe9 Average monthly pay Of teachers
/ S3l.20. Whole expenditures for pub,;c
SCHOOLS, S672, $50.
In AIsb ms, 1884 So, whites Of scaoc-
age G 2lJ, %, sol; colored, 1852
| Number or teachers in public schools
male, 1886; female, 1856 Average an.
nusl pay OF teachers, 800. 22-abou,
ei9Aty-tWO school days ia twelve mouths
Expenditures for public schools, Ss72-
500
In the Indian Territory the five tribes
OF Indians have eighty-f9ar BOARDING
schools and eightv-six day schools under
agency supervision, with ar average ct
tendance Of 6OOe; seven Iudian training
schools, with sn average attendance Of
| 1923, and tWenty-three other schools in
the states and territories, with 81 average
attendance of 10, al! at cost of 1857,
2'0 to the government, besides large
| amounts from friends OF the red men in
the states and territories
In the frozen ana far-off region of
Alaska there Wsre, In 1870, II ,23O chill
dren to De provided for ia the Territory.
! lie Commissioner OF Education ssys:
line schools OF Alask4 have 1een started
upon methods and principles specially
calculated TO tske the people as they are,
on tneir soil, IN their climate and with
al their other peculiar surroundings
ana aiI their customs and give them tie
bench. OF instruction in the virtues Of
our clvlIIz.toa before they are destroyed
by Its vices. The people ere seHsCp-
porting and tescha5le, and should never
De set back by introducing destructive
features long ago admitted iato our
policy Of trestng The Inci1D.
IN the original slave states srd Dis
trlc5 Of COlumbs IN I8S4-95 the school
population wss: White, 81, $50; en-
rol.ment, 2,G7G oil. Cal7red school po7-
n!atlou, 2 90 G96; enrolment, $50 $50:
expenditures il educ1 I-u gtacig ( = o1,1
Eaces, Sir, 81 .373
NUMBER OF normal schools reported 20
the Commissioner OF Educatlon IN 1851
50, IVES 268; number of instructors, 207G;
number OF students, SO, 1855. The annual
appropriations by states and counties are
IN many instances very liberal. Illinois
appropriated in 1884, for the Southern
illinois normal university, s24,1O0; for
COOK county normal school the county
appropriated $4,000.
me Indiana State Normal School gets
81, OOO from the state. The State Nor
mai school OF Michigan gets s32, 500. The
State Normal School OF Missouri gets